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" There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned home the previous night. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 402
1929
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Punch, Volume 165

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1923 - 680 pages
...thought-transference that the match is drawn. Relativity. There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light ; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. SOUP. " THICK or clear soup, Sir ? " The waiter bent over the fiercelooking...
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The Complete Limerick Book: The Origin, History, and Achievements of the ...

Langford Reed - 1925 - 168 pages
...faster Than he could tear cheques from his book.* There was a young woman named Bright, Whose speed was much faster than light. She set out one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night. (With apologies to PROFESSOR EINSTEIN). A musical Pittsburg Panjandrum...
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Quantum Field Theory

Lowell S. Brown - 1992 - 564 pages
...do Henry Fielding Review of Special Relativity There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. Unknown An event in space-time is labeled by the four coordinates x*(...
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School Smarts: Two Thousand Things Students Need to Know, Ages 10 Plus

Jay Amberg - 1994 - 436 pages
...with a fixed rhythm and rhyme scheme. Example: There was a young woman named Sprite Whose speed was much faster than light. She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. See poetry, rhyme, and rhythm. The sixteenth President of the United...
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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

Murray Gell-Mann - 1995 - 414 pages
...traveling backward in time. Hence the limerick: There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light. She set out one day, in a relative way, And returned home the previous night. Next, certain writers have claimed acceptability in quantum mechanics...
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Understanding Relativity: A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories

Leo Sartori - 1996 - 384 pages
...following limerick, attributed to Arthur Buller: There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way (5-8) When £ is in region I or II, the value of Vic determined by equation (5.8) is less than one....
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Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2

Lawrence S. Lerner - 1996 - 248 pages
...limerick: There was a young lady named White, Who could travel much faster than light. She started one day In a relative way. And arrived on the previous night. 38.6 (5) You can 't get there from here! A friend offers the following argument to show the limited...
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2

Lawrence S. Lerner - 1997 - 558 pages
...limerick: ^ There was a young lady named White, Who could travel much faster than light. She started one day In a relative way, And arrived on the previous night. 38.6 (5) You can't get there from here! A friend offers the following argument to show the limited...
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Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy

C.C. Gaither - 1997 - 510 pages
...257 RELATIVITY Bullet, Arthur Henry Reginald There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light. She set out one day In a relative way, And returned home the previous night. Punch Relativity (p. 591) Volume CLXV, December 19, 1923 Cerf, Bennett...
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The Wordsworth Book of Limericks

Linda Marsh - 1997 - 450 pages
...without, In handling my everyday chawers.' 9* There was a young lady named Bright Who travelled for fester than light, She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night. 97 There was a young man of Nepal Who had a mathematical ball; (W 3...
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